Αλεξανδρου αναβασις 4.23

4.23.1

Ἀλέξανδρος δέ, ἄγων τοὺς ὑπασπιστὰς καὶ τῶν ἑταίρων ἱππέων ὅσοι μὴ σὺν Ἡφαιστίωνι ἐτετάχατο καὶ τῶν πεζεταίρων καλουμένων τὰς τάξεις καὶ τοὺς τοξότας καὶ τοὺς Ἀγριᾶνας καὶ τοὺς ἱππακοντιστάς, προὐχώρει ἐς τὴν Ἀσπαςίων τε καὶ Γουραίων χώραν καὶ Ἀσσακηνῶν.

Alexander took command in person of the other division of the army, consisting of the hypaspists, all the companion cavalry except what was with Hephaistion, the brigades of infantry called the foot-companions, the archers, the Agrianians, and the horse lancers, and advanced into the country of the Aspasians and Gouraians and Assakenians. The route which he followed was hilly and rugged, and lay along the course of the river called the Khoes, which he had difficulty in crossing. This done he ordered the mass of the infantry to follow leisurely, while he rode rapidly forward, taking with him the whole of his cavalry, besides 800 Macedonian foot soldiers, whom he mounted on horseback with their infantry shields; for he had been informed that the barbarians inhabiting those parts had fled for refuge to their native mountains, and to such of their cities as were strongly fortified. When he proceeded to attack the first city of this kind that came in his way, he found men drawn up before it in battle order, and on these he fell at once, just as he was, put them to rout, and shut them up within the gates. He was wounded, however, in the shoulder by a dart which penetrated through his breast-plate, but not severely, for the breast-plate prevented the weapon from going right through his shoulder. Ptolemy, the son of Lagos, and Leonnatos were also wounded.
He then encamped near the city on the side where he thought the wall was weakest. Next day, as soon as there was light, the Macedonians attacked the outer of the two walls by which the city was encompassed, and as it was but rudely constructed they captured it without difficulty. At the inner wall, however, the barbarians made some resistance; but when the ladders were applied, and the defenders were galled with darts wherever they turned, they no longer stood their ground, but issued from the city through the gates and made for the hills. Some of them perished in the flight, while such as were taken alive were to a man put to death by the Macedonians, who were enraged against them for having wounded Alexander. Most of them, however, made good their escape to the mountains, which lay at no great distance from the city. Alexander razed it to the ground, and then marched forward to another city called Andaka, which surrendered on capitulation. When the place had thus fallen into his hands he left Krateros in these parts, with the other infantry officers, to take by force whatever other cities refused voluntary submission, and to settle the affairs of the surrounding district in the best way existing circumstances would permit, while he himself advanced to the river Euaspla, where the chief of the Aspasians was.

4.23.2

πορευθεὶς δὲ παρὰ τὸν Χόην καλούμενον ποταμὸν ὀρεινήν τε ὁδὸν καὶ τραχεῖαν καὶ τοῦτον διαβὰς χαλεπῶς τῶν μὲν πεζῶν τὸ πλῆθος βάδην ἕπεσθαί οἱ ἐκέλευσεν, αὐτὸς δὲ ἀναλαβὼν τοὺς ἱππέας ξύμπαντας καὶ τῶν πεζῶν τῶν Μακεδόνων ἐς ὀκτακοσίους ἐπιβιβάσας τῶν ἵππων ξὺν ταῖς ἀσπίσι ταῖς πεζικαῖς σπουδῇ ἦγεν, ὅτι τοὺς ταύτῃ οἰκοῦντας βαρβάρους ξυμπεφευγέναι ἔς τε τὰ ὄρη τὰ κατὰ τὴν χώραν ἐξηγγέλλετο αὐτῷ καὶ ἐς τὰς πόλεις ὅσαι ὀχυραὶ αὐτῶν ἐς τὸ ἀπομάχεσθαι.

4.23.3

καὶ τούτων τῇ πρώτῃ καθʼ ὁδὸν πόλει ᾠκισμένῃ προσβαλὼν τοὺς μὲν πρὸ τῆς πόλεως τεταγμένους ὡς εἶχεν ἐξ ἐφόδου ἐτρέψατο καὶ κατέκλεισεν ἐς τὴν πόλιν, αὐτὸς δὲ τιτρώσκεται βέλει διὰ τοῦ θώρακος ἐς τὸν ὦμον· τὸ δὲ τραῦμα οὐ χαλεπὸν αὐτῷ ἐγένετο· ὁ γὰρ θώραξ ἔσχε τὸ μὴ οὐ διαμπὰξ διὰ τοῦ ὤμου ἐλθεῖν τὸ βέλος· καὶ Πτολεμαῖος ὁ Λάγου ἐτρώθη καὶ Λεοννάτος.

4.23.4

τότε μὲν δὴ ἵνα ἐπιμαχώτατον τοῦ τείχους ἐφαίνετο ἐστρατοπεδεύσατο πρὸς τῇ πόλει· τῇ δὲ ὑστεραίᾳ ὑπὸ τὴν ἕω, διπλοῦν γὰρ τεῖχος περιεβέβλητο τῇ πόλει, ἐς μὲν τὸ πρῶτον ἅτε οὐκ ἀκριβῶς τετειχισμένον οὐ χαλεπῶς ἐβιάσαντο οἱ Μακεδόνες, πρὸς δὲ τῷ δευτέρῳ ὀλίγον ἀντισχόντες οἱ βάρβαροι, ὡς αἵ τε κλίμακες προσέκειντο ἤδη καὶ ὑπὸ τῶν βελῶν πάντοθεν ἐτιτρώσκοντο οἱ προμαχόμενοι, οὐκ ἔμειναν, ἀλλὰ κατὰ τὰς πύλας ὡς ἐπὶ τὰ ὄρη ἐκπίπτουσιν ἐκ τῆς πόλεως.

4.23.5

καὶ τούτων οἱ μὲν ἐν τῇ φυγῇ ἀποθνήσκουσιν, ὅσους δὲ ζῶντας ἔλαβον αὐτῶν, ξύμπαντας ἀποκτείνουσιν οἱ Μακεδόνες, ὅτι ἐτρώθη ὑπʼ αὐτῶν Ἀλέξανδρος ὀργιζόμενοι· οἱ πολλοὶ δὲ ἐς τὰ ὄρη, ὅτι οὐ μακρὰν τῆς πόλεως τὰ ὄρη ἦν, ἀπέφυγον. τὴν πόλιν δὲ κατασκάψας ἐς Ἄνδακα ἄλλην πόλιν ἦγε. ταύτην δὲ ὁμολογίᾳ ἐνδοθεῖσαν κατασχὼν Κρατερὸν μὲν ξὺν τοῖς ἄλλοις ἡγεμόσι τῶν πεζῶν καταλείπει αὐτοῦ ἐξαιρεῖν ὅσαι ἄν ἄλλαι πόλεις μὴ ἑκοῦσαι προσχωρῶσι καὶ τὰ κατὰ τὴν χώραν ὅπως ξυμφορώτατον ἐς τὰ παρόντα κοσμεῖν.